The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-04-15
NEWS SUMMARY.


vetoed the Crosby high-license bill.
Spencer Smith has accepted place
on the Iowa Railroad Commission.
Benton j. Hall, of Iowa, has been
appointed Commissioner of Patents.
The missing steamer Eagle has ar
rived at st. Johns with two thousand
seals.
The heaviest crop for many years is
predicted by peach-growers in New
Jersey.
The election in Rankin county, Mis-
sissippi, was carried by the Prohi-
bitionists.
Samuel Simpson, an uncle of Gen.
eral Grant, died mt Bantam, Ohio, at
the age of 81.
An earthquake sufficiently severe to
create panic occurred Oh Sunday at
Burlington, Vermont.
A Chicago bank has filed at st. Paul
creditors bill against ID. M. Sabin,
to recover large sums.
John H. Raymond, the well-known
actor, died at Evansville, Ind, at 2
o'clock Sunday morning.
Charles p. Parker, who stole 400
FROM Paymaster ID. n. Bash, IN Ari-
IONA, has been captured.
The Chicago ball club defeated the
st. Louis Browns Tuesday by a score
of 16 to Is, at Louisville.
A commercial club has been organ
lied by the leading business men to
boom the ancient town of Galena.
A company has been organized in
Louisiana, partly by western men, to
build railway from Alexandria to
Houston.
A fire at Custer, Michigan. des-
troyed a factory which turned out $780,
600 clothes-pins daily. 1t was valued
at $4,000.
f. l.. Pugh Of Alabama, q son of the
Senator, has been appointed to clerk
ship ON the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
The members of Temple Israel. at
St. Louis, subscribed $500 on Sunday
toward a monument to Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher.
The drought in Texas extends from
the western grazing lands across the
state eight hundred miles to the Louis
lana pine region.
William Fields, captain of the
United States Indian police, was
killed near Eufaula on Sunday, by a
chief named Cunning.
DR.. Nathan NJ. Thomas, one of the
pioneers of Michigan and famous
abolitionist, died at Schoolcraft, Oh
Wednesday, aged 81 years.
The late Miss Catharine l.. Wolfe, of
New York, bequeathed to the Metro
pOlitan Museum of Art her collection
of pictures and 5000 in cash.
AT Westfleld Corners, Illinois, John
Hogan was knocked down and then
seized by the neck and shaken to
death by savage stallion.
1t is reported from Fort Gibson that
James G. Blaine is improving, but has
been advised by his physician to re-
main in his room for week.
As the tenants on the Irish estates
OF Lord LanSdowne refuse to COM
promise, the eviction of all in arrears
will be commenced OH April 20.
Nora Brown, fat negress of San
Antonio, Texas, has within seven
years become white, with the excep-
ton of her neck and finger-tips.
Eldridge d. Rand. one Of the pioneer
lumber merchants of the upper Mis-
sissippi, died at Burlington, Iowa, OH
Sunday, leaving large fortune.
On farm near Chatham, Illinois,
quarrel between the Warford brothers
resulted In the murder of William and
the attempted suicide Of Joseph.
Under recent enactment of the
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distinct individuals in their rights to
acquire and dispose of property.
1t is stated by the Atlanta Constitu-
ton that President Cleveland has
promised to attend the Piedmont ex-
position in that city next October. :.
A tribunal at Odessa sentenced
Lieutenant Goreff to eight years. hard
labor in the mines of Siberia for dis
tributing revolutionary circulars.
Kuty, town in Austrian Galicia,
having population of about 5000,
has been almost completely destroyed
by fire. About 1000 people are home
less.
1t is proposed to amalgamate IN one
gigantic organization the National
Federation of Miners and the Miners
National Assembly of the knights of
Labor.
The statement comes from st.
Thomas that negotiations for the
to the Canadian Pacific are in pro-
gress.
David L. Mitchell, a stock-dealer,
well known in central Illinois, has fled
with 5000 or so, obtained in the vi
entity of Bloomington by false pre-
lenses.
Levi Empie,a banker at Burlingame.
Kansas, who died OH Sunday from
paralysis, was one of the pioneers of
that State, and prominent Odd
Fellow.
The Canadian cruiser Vigilant re-
Gently fired blank shot at an Ameri-
can fishing-vessel within the three
mile limit at Beaver Harbor, but failed
to stop her.
The Illinois Central road has purch-
ased control Of the Dubuque and
Sioux City at $50 per share, and now
owns all The lines in Iowa heretofore
leased by it.
The legislature OF Rhode Island
comprises SO democrats and 46 repub-
leans, insuring the election Of those
democratic state candidates who failed
at the polls.
The new Illinois railroad commits
sion comprises John l.. Rinaker, b. +.
Marsh, and Jason Rogers. The north
ern section of the state is now UNI
represented.
The trustees of the Illinois Soldiers